Age of Empires IV for Xbox has Reportedly Been Discovered - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 January 2022 / 2,025 Views

Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Relic Entertainment released the real-time strategy game, Age of Empires IV, for the PC in October 2021.

An Xbox port of the game has yet to officially be announced, however, Twitter user @ALumia_Italia has discovered "XIP_CAR_JANUARY_2022" is now viewable on the Xbox Insider Hub for internal testing.

CAR is likely short for Cardinal, which is the internal codename for for Age Of Empires IV.

Car = Cardinal = Age of Empires IV
XIP = Xbox Insider Preview? ?
— Aggiornamenti Lumia (@ALumia_Italia) January 9, 2022

This wouldn't be the first Xbox game that was once exclusive to PC to get a port on Xbox consoles. Microsoft Flight Simulator first released for PC in August 2020 and was later ported to the Xbox Series X|S in July 2021.

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4 Comments

aTokenYeti (on 09 January 2022)

The effort to port Flight Sim 2020 to Xbox greatly improved the PC version, because the developers were forced to optimize for the ram limitations of the console, as well as the high core count CPU. I’m hoping the same thing happens here, as AOE4 is very hard on 1 or 2 processing threads and doesn’t utilize the GPU fully

scrapking (on 09 January 2022)

Age of Empires IV is somewhat simplified/streamlined over previous iterations of AoE, so could probably play on a gamepad relatively well. Or they could make you use a keyboard and mouse on the console. It would be interesting to see how they approach that.